2 bodies discovered in the case of the missing Oklahoma pastor’s wife, Jilian Kelly, and Veronica Butler.
Yesterday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation arrested four people in connection with the disappearances of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, the pastor’s wife. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has now found two bodies that they are working to identify.
In a short report Sunday night, the agency said, “On April 14, the OSBI, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), Texas County Sheriff’s Department, and the Office of the Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner recovered two bodies in rural Texas County.”
The Medical Examiner’s Office will receive both individuals for identification and to confirm the cause and manner of death. The study is still going on.”
Kelley is married to Pastor Heath Kelley, who oversees Kansas’ Hugoton First Christian Church. Heath Kelley just agreed to become the new leader of Nebraska’s Willow Christian Church in June. Both churches have prayed for the pastor’s wife and Butler’s safe return.
The last sighting of the women occurred in Oklahoma on March 30. A person close to Butler informed ABC 7 that the missing mother had planned to pick up her 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son in Eva, Oklahoma, for her daughter’s birthday. Butler had been in a custody dispute with the family of Wrangler Cole Rickman, her children’s father, for a long time. Jilian Kelley and Butler embarked on a 16-mile journey from Elkhart, but the journey fell short by 3 miles.
In rural Texas County, south of Elkhart, Kansas, they left their car behind near Highway 95 and Road L.
Investigators linked the disappearance of the women to foul play. On Saturday, they reported that they had arrested four people in connection with the women’s disappearance. Tifany Machel Adams, 54, is Butler’s children’s paternal grandma. Others arrested are Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; and Cora Twombly, 44.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the four individuals suspected of abducting the missing pastor’s wife, Jilian Kelley, and Veronica Butler.
Texas and Cimarron counties apprehended four individuals and charged them with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of planning to commit first-degree murder.
When the children’s paternal grandmother, Tifany Adams, filed a move in Oklahoma’s Cimarron County Court last November, she was against any changes to Butler’s controlled contact schedule with her grandchildren. Adams asserted that Butler’s care had resulted in sexual abuse of the grandchildren.
The move said that the father of the children was a drug user who didn’t want to take care of his kids. That being said, he trusted Adams more than Butler to keep the kids safe.
“The petitioner seems to be taking advantage of the fact that Mr. Rickman doesn’t care about his kids.” Mr. Rickman is no longer a part of the kids’ lives. The lawsuit says, “Instead of being a father, he now seeks the pleasures of drinking, using drugs, and other immoral behaviour.”
When he left, the petitioner didn’t take care of the children; he left them with his mother. There are two main reasons for this. Before anything else, Mr. Rickman would have been breaking the court’s order that gave him brief emergency care if he had left the kids with the petitioner. It’s very important to stress that this court found Petitioner’s brother to have sexually abused the minor children, and Petitioner broke the no-contact order that said the minor children couldn’t be with Petitioner’s abusive brother, the document says.
“The second reason is because, obviously, Mr. Rickman trusts Ms. Adams with the children more than he trusts the petitioner with the children.”
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